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Director: Terry Winsor
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From Time Out Film Guide
Sold as a sassy young British film ('lotta skirt, lotta geezers, lotta class...') with a passable compilation soundtrack, and directed/co-scripted by National Film School graduate Winsor, this comedy of adolescent errors and angst comes across as disappointingly arthritic. The plot - New Year's Eve jollities, expanded from a student short - seems too insubstantial for a full-length feature. It's impossible to sympathise or identify with this charmless assembly of wimps, vamps, wallflowers, fast flash womanisers, piss artists, comic bobbies, vicars, and - that ultimate figure of Carry On hilarity - the horny middle-aged male. You feel Winsor doesn't much like his desperate party people; and that, surely, is unforgivable.Author: SJo
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- Neil said...
- Posted on Oct 04 2009 10:23 Absolutely love this film and have been watching it regularly since 1983. It is like Marmite, you either love it or hate it.
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- corinne said...
- Posted on Apr 11 2008 22:53 excellent film been watching it for 14 years and still love it!! its a classic
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Cast & crew
Director: Terry Winsor
Producer: Davina Belling, Clive Parsons
Cast: Daniel Peacock, Karl Howman, Perry Fenwick, Sean Chapman, Phoebe Nicholls, Gary Olsen full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 98 mins
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